One would think that if you want to copy an idea you’d do it well, wouldn’t you. Not the BBC seemingly. I’m a bit of a fan of Scrapheap Challenge and I’ve been enjoying the new series (or atleast those bits of it that don’t feature Lisa Rogers – sorry anyone that likes her but she just annoyes me, at least the last co presenter, Cathy Rogers confusingly, seemed to know what she was talkig about end{rant}). Now where was I?
Oh yes. Mechannibals it’s on BBC on Sundays. It’s a little like scrapheap but instead of a scrapheap they get they’re own houses. The winners get all the stuff they trash replaced and the losers get a toolbox to fix it. The fact that it’s an obvious copy doesn’t really irritate me. It’s more the fact that it’s a bad copy.
The good thing about Scrapheap is that it’s big. People use big engines to do some really impressive stuff and there’s lots of noise and mess etc. Mechannibals is lame by comparison and the things that get made, generally, don’t work. The most disturbing this about this program is the contestants. The blokes are generally a bit wierd (and probably bitter that they aren’t good enough to go on Scrapheap). Also at least once per episode the wives generally break down in tears and look like they’re seriously considering divorce.
